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[00:10.75]Country Spring
[00:13.05]One spring I went a walking tour in the country.
[00:18.74]It was a glorious spring.
[00:21.22]Not the sort of spring they give us in these miserable times,
[00:25.00]under this shameless government
[00:27.34]-a mixture of east wind £¬blizzard, snow, rain,
[00:31.09]fog, frost, hail, sleet and thunder-storms,
[00:35.26]but a sunny, blue-skyed, joyous spring,
[00:38.86]such as we used to have regularly every year when I was a young man,
[00:43.04]and things were different.
[00:44.90]It was an exceptionally beautiful spring,
[00:47.79]even for those golden days;
[00:50.11]and as I wandered through the waking land,
[00:53.40]and saw the dawning of the coming green,
[00:55.95]and watched the blush upon the hawthorn hedge ,
[00:59.30]deepening each day beneath the kisses of the sun,
[01:02.74]and looked up at the proud old mother trees,
[01:06.12]dandling their numerous baby buds upon their strong fond arms
[01:11.32]holding them high for the soft west wind to caress as he passed laughing by,
[01:17.79]and marked the primrose yellow creep across the carpet of the woods,
[01:22.93]and saw the new flush of the field and saw the new light on the hills,
[01:28.03]and heard the new-found gladness of the birds,
[01:31.62]and heard from wood and farm and meadow the timid callings of the little new-born things,
[01:38.01]wondering to find themselves alive,
[01:40.94]and smelt the freshness of the earth,
[01:43.46]and felt the promise in the air,
[01:45.83]and felt a strong hand in the wind,
[01:48.85]my spirit rose within me.
[01:50.88]Spring had come to me also,
[01:53.32]and stirred me with a strange new life, with a strange new hope.
[01:58.51]I, too, was part of nature, and it was spring!
[02:02.48]Tender leaves and blossoms were unfolding from my heart.
[02:06.50]Bright flowers of love and gratitude were opening round its roots.
[02:11.24]I felt new strength in all my limbs.
[02:14.29]New blood was running through my veins.
[02:17.04]Nobler thoughts and nobler longings were throbbing through my brain.
[02:21.66]As I walked, nature came and talked beside me,
[02:25.70]and showed me the world and myself, and the ways of God seemed clearer.